I would like to take my traffic heavy servers and trunk the two gigabit ethernet ports giving me 2 gig of bandwidth.
I have the two cards, and I have Windows server 2003 installed. Is there an easy way to do this?

With our Proliants, we just use the NIC management software (which HP Smartstart installs) to create a load balance 'team' with the 2 1gbps NICs. A virtual adapter is then presented to Windows at 2gbps. No changes needed on the switches.

With our Proliants, we just use the NIC management software (which HP Smartstart installs) to create a load balance 'team' with the 2 1gbps NICs. A virtual adapter is then presented to Windows at 2gbps. No changes needed on the switches.

He is right i just looked at our switches again. With our nics (two intel server nics) we just used the software that came with them no switch config neccessary . our switched automatically detected the trunk.

You may need to be carefull as if spanning tree detects the two routes it may block one of the connections take a look athttp://www.cisco.com...08089a821.shtmlto configure ether channel and the HP device